I find this difficult to understand. For example, the popular big Under Armour sports jugs are 64oz (had to Google it) and my kid usually polishes one off- or mostly -during a 2hr summer sports practice (he is 12 and weighs like 95lbs). We do live in a very warm climate.

I’m sure there is more going on with this story but the water amounts being thrown about really are not necessarily that much IMO…

4 bottles in half an hour when you have been out on a boat and in the sun and feeling dehydrated isn’t that much water. Her electrolytes were off and she didn’t realize that after heavy exertion or sun exposure where one sweats a lot you shouldn’t rehydrate with only water, further diluting your low electrolyte levels.

Did not read all comments but OMG yes this is terrible. The No wee for Wii contest or whatever it was - I will never forget water toxicity because of that. So sad.

I drink 3-4 L a day...but that's over a 16ish hour period. Her electrolytes were likely already a little off given the boating, possibly drinking, and being dehydrated. Then she consumed a lot in a short period of time. This caused a worse electrolyte imbalance. Electrolyte imbalances can cause fatal arrhythmias, which I'm guessing is what happened here. Some people are also more sensitive to these electrolyte imbalances, I am and can easily tell when I'm getting dehydrated as I get frequent PVCs.

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Anonymous wrote:It says at one point 4 bottles in 30 mins, that doesn't sound like that's all she drank. Sounds like she was hydrating during the day consuming lots of water.

There’s more to this.

More like what though? This is what I'm not understanding.

DP but it sounds like she drank a lot of water that day. And even "at one point 4 bottles in 30 mins" on top of whatever else she had. She was guzzling lots of water. How much total water did she drink that day?

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Anonymous wrote:It says at one point 4 bottles in 30 mins, that doesn't sound like that's all she drank. Sounds like she was hydrating during the day consuming lots of water.

Hydrating is not an actual scientific thing

If she was dehydrated and then drank a ton of water, what do you think she was doing?

Anonymous wrote:I know this is a thing but that doesn’t sound like enough water to do it. I regularly drink 33 oz in 5 minutes. It’s not that much water.

Same I’m a water obsessive. This does not sound like a lot to me.

My wife nearly did this on an AIDS ride. Sucking from a camelback and another water bottle, while riding 100 miles. Her electrolytes got completely messed up -- thankfully, she checked herself into a medical tent and they knew immediately what it was. She was on an IV (banana bag maybe?) for several hours.

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, she had low sodium because she had been out sweating all day. In a normal situation, she would need to drink more like 130 oz to kill herself.

That makes sense

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Anonymous wrote:It says at one point 4 bottles in 30 mins, that doesn't sound like that's all she drank. Sounds like she was hydrating during the day consuming lots of water.

There’s more to this.

More like what though? This is what I'm not understanding.

Yeah, she had low sodium because she had been out sweating all day. In a normal situation, she would need to drink more like 130 oz to kill herself.

^^and likely hadn’t eaten enough.

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Anonymous wrote:It says at one point 4 bottles in 30 mins, that doesn't sound like that's all she drank. Sounds like she was hydrating during the day consuming lots of water.

There’s more to this.

Why do you keep saying that? You sound ignorant. It’s not a made up thing. It happens. She drank half a gallon of water in 30 minutes. She was likely petite.

Anonymous wrote:It says at one point 4 bottles in 30 mins, that doesn't sound like that's all she drank. Sounds like she was hydrating during the day consuming lots of water.

There’s more to this.

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Anonymous wrote:Yikes. I drink several litres of water every day.

Most people into fitness do. I drank a gallon a day for two years. It’s not unusual. There’s something more to this story. It should take gallons and no food…

But that's a gallon over the course of a day, vs 64 oz in 30 mins. It matters.